#120: Uncomfortable Realities and the Dark Side of Insta-Therapy with Seerut Chawla

Mary's Cup of Tea: the Self Love Podcast for Women

Mary Jelkovsky

Body-image, Education, Relationships, Self Compassion, Society & Culture, Self Love For Women, Self Love, Self-improvement, Advice For Women, Women's Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Love Yourself, Self Worth, Self-love, Body Image

4.9 • 745 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Psychotherapist Seerut Chawla (@seerutkchawla) joins us for a hot take on the dangers of Insta-therapy. Warning: this conversation will challenge you to keep an open mind, think critically, and evaluate what you’ve been taught. You will learn... - what ideas about mental health that have been popularized on social media are actually unethical and harmful - how cultural differences impact our view of mental health - what trauma actually is and what it is NOT Remember: take what resonates with you and leave the rest. This conversation is meant to challenge us to maybe see things a little differently... Seerut Chawla is a psychotherapist and cultural commentator based in London. Follow Seerut on Instagram: @seerutkchawla Sign up for Seerut’s Substack here: https://seerutkchawla.substack.com/ And if you enjoyed this episode, screenshot it and share it on social media! Make sure to tag @maryspodcast and @seerutkchawla

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mary's Cup of Tea podcast. I'm your host, Mary Jilkovsky. I'm an author,
0:07.5	speaker, and all-around self-love advocate. And this is the podcast that will inspire you to love
0:14.5	yourself. Hey, self-lovers, today's podcast is a no-bullshit type of conversation. So I'm going to give you a
0:26.6	no-bullshit introduction to our guest today. Our guest today is Sirut Chowla, who is a
0:33.3	psychotherapist and cultural commentator based in London. This conversation is about the downsides and
0:40.9	even the dangers of, quote, insta therapy, which is basically like these viral posts that you see
0:49.3	on the internet. They're often about mental health and giving people some sort of diagnosis or just really
0:57.8	boiling down huge, intricate, nuanced mental health topics into a little thread or slideshow.
1:06.4	And of course, it's captivating and it's shareable and this stuff goes viral and then a lot of people
1:13.4	tend to misdiagnose themselves or just absorb a message that isn't necessarily helpful to
1:21.0	themselves and the people around them and this is what C-Root has a problem with. So I'm warning
1:27.1	you that this conversation will
1:29.1	definitely challenge you. You're going to have to keep an open mind and think critically and just
1:34.6	reevaluate what you've been taught. We're not trying to convince you of anything, just trying to
1:40.2	share a different perspective or something you may not have thought about before. So in this
1:45.2	episode, you will learn what ideas about mental health have been popularized on social media
1:50.2	that are actually unethical and harmful. You'll also hear about how cultural differences
1:57.3	impact our view of mental health. So a lot of things that we talk about in the West
2:04.2	isn't necessarily the reality for so many people, billions and billions of people that live
2:11.6	differently and may actually like their lifestyle and opinions and approaches to things. And also, Searut talks to us
2:21.4	about what trauma is and what it actually is not. I don't want to give much more than this away
2:28.8	because I highly invite you to listen to this conversation. There are moments that are deep and a little dark. So I'm going to
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